The defendant partnership had been convicted of offences of failing to submit sales notes of the results of its fish auctions. Some individual partners sought to appeal.
Held: The statute could make a partnership liable as a separate entity. That being the case here, the applicants had not themselves been convicted, and so had no individual standing to appeal against the conviction of the partnership. However also any penalty attached only to assets clearly part of the partnership property, and did not apply to the personal assets of individual partners.
Lord Phillips CJ
[2008] EWCA Crim 273, Times 05-Mar-2008
Bailii
Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) Order 2000
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v RL and JF CACD 28-Aug-2008
Club, nt members, prosecutable for breach
The Environment Agency appealed against dismissal of charges against the defendants who were officers in an unincorporated members’ golf club on whose land there had been pollution. The judge had ruled that the unincorporated association could have . .
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Crime, Company
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.265922
